Content tagged with emergency decree

Gülmen and Özakça message from PEN, Rebecca O’Brien and Ken Loach
Gülmen and Özakça message from PEN, Rebecca O’Brien and Ken Loach
Gülmen and Özakça are on 76th day of hunger strike and director Ken Loach, producer Rebecca O'Brien and Pen International released solidarity messages.
23 May 2017 Haber Merkezi
Amnesty International: more than 100,000 public sector employees denied a future
Amnesty International: more than 100,000 public sector employees denied a future
Amnesty International, in a report concerning dismissed public sector workers, stated: "The blanket nature of the dismissals, the fact that the dismissed include trade union, political or human rights activists and known critics of the government from conservative sections of society, and the broader crackdown on dissent that has included the jailing of more than 120 journalists awaiting trial since the 2016 coup attempt, increase concerns that a great many dismissals were arbitrary, unfair and/or politically motivated."
22 May 2017 Haber Merkezi
Gülmen and Özakça detained in midnight raid
Gülmen and Özakça detained in midnight raid
Dismissed academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça are on the 75th day of their hunger strike, which they started with the demand of being returned to their jobs. Last night, police raided their houses and detained Gülmen and Özakça. Lawyer Selçuk Kozaağaçlı stated that the ground of detention is the following: “the protest might turn into an indefinite hunger strike or trigger events like Gezi Park protests or Tekel strike.”
22 May 2017 Haber Merkezi
“Academia is outside of the academy now”
“Academia is outside of the academy now”
Prof. Dr. Nilgün Toker Kılınç, who signed the “Academics for Peace” declaration and is dismissed with the recent emergency decree, thinks that dismissal is an “act of vengeance” rather than punishment.
12 January 2017 Gözde Kazaz
“State of emergency continues, new decrees to come”
“State of emergency continues, new decrees to come”
Vice Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş stated that the state of emergency will continue as long as it is necessary, new emergency decrees are about to be completed and investigation is launched against 347 social media accounts.
3 January 2017 Haber Merkezi
The fertility center that was shut down by a decree reopened by another decree
The fertility center that was shut down by a decree reopened by another decree
With the recent emergency decree that is published in the Official Journal today, Istanbul Fertility Center, which was shut down on July 25, is reopened.
22 November 2016 Haber Merkezi
Boğaziçi University reacts against the abolition of rectoral election
Boğaziçi University reacts against the abolition of rectoral election
Academic staff of Boğaziçi University protested the abolition of the rectoral election.
1 November 2016
Two more emergency decrees lead to abolition of the rectoral elections and shutdown of 15 media organs
Two more emergency decrees lead to abolition of the rectoral elections and shutdown of 15 media organs
With the most recent emergency decrees, 10,158 civil servants and 1267 academics have been sacked, rectoral elections are abolished and 15 media organs including DİHA and Azadiya Welat are shut down
30 October 2016 Haber Merkezi
“Emergency decrees enabled torture in detention”
“Emergency decrees enabled torture in detention”
Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a report released today, stated that there is torture and ill-treatment in police custody, since the key safeguards against torture and ill-treatment are excluded from the decrees that were issued after the coup attempt in July.
25 October 2016 Haber Merkezi

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